Hey, Hey, What Can I Do

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"Hey, Hey, What Can I Do"
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song.jpg
Single by Led Zeppelin
A-side "Immigrant Song"
Released5 November 1970 (1970-11-05)
RecordedMay–June 1970 (?); 29 May 1970 [1]
Studio Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Headley Grange, Hampshire; Olympic Sound Studios, London [1]
Genre Country rock [2]
Length3:55
Label Atlantic
Songwriters
Producer Jimmy Page

"Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" is a rock ballad song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1970 as the B-side of the single "Immigrant Song" in the US. [3]

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Releases

After its release on a single, "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" was included on the Atlantic Records compilation album The New Age of Atlantic in 1972. [a] The song was first released on CD in September 1990, on the Led Zeppelin Boxed Set collection. [3] In 1992, as a 20th-anniversary release, "Immigrant Song"/"Hey, Hey What Can I Do" was issued as a "vinyl replica" CD single.

In 1993, the song was included on The Complete Studio Recordings 10-CD box set, as one of four bonus tracks on the Coda disc as well as the subsequent 12-CD Led Zeppelin Definitive Collection box set released in 2008. In 2015, the song was also included on disc one of the two companion discs of the reissue of Coda.[ citation needed ]

Critical reception

ClassicRockHistory.com wrote: "I was completely blown away when I heard that country-esque introduction to “Hey Hey What Can I do.”" [5] AllMusic reviewed the 2000 single version by Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes and said: "This single, however, is useless to all but a completist, as the only track is the LP version and there are no exciting extras at all." [6]

Personnel

According to Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin: [1]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Some pressings of the US single (Atlantic 45-2777) list "From Atlantic LP 19128 "LED ZEPPELIN III", which only applies to the A-side, "Immigrant Song". [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Guesdon & Margotin 2018, p. 218.
  2. ↑ Case, George (2009). Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man: An Unauthorized Biography. Backbeat Books. p. 103. ISBN   978-0-87930-947-3.
  3. 1 2 Williamson, Nigel (2 August 2007). The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin. Rough Guides. pp. 66, 74–75, 214. ISBN   978-1-84353-841-7.
  4. ↑ "Immigrant Song" / "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" (Single notes). New York City: Atlantic Records. 1970. B-side label. 45-2777.
  5. ↑ Kachejian, Brian (29 January 2018). "How Led Zeppelin's "Hey Hey What Can I Do," Surprised Everyone". ClassicRockHistory.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
  6. ↑ Griffith, JT. "Hey Hey What Can I Do Review by JT Griffith". AllMusic . NETAKTION LLC. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2025.

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